Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, guys. Yes, definitely bleak. No bushes, no trees. Actually, that's not quite true. There was the arctic willow (picture to come), but it is a ground creeper, only about a cm high. Henning Wulff hjwulff at gmail.com On 2016-09-19, at 3:31 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Nice set, but feels rather bleak on the whole. > > My favourite is the Kittiwake formation... > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Well, we are back from our arctic trip (thanks in part to my cousin Philip >> the travel agent) and have had a bit of time to look at some of the >> photos. >> >> We went from August 20 to August 28 inclusive, from Resolute on Cornwallis >> Island (approx. 75?N) to Cambridge Bay (approx. 69?N). Temperatures were >> about 2?C ?2? the whole time, but often with a fierce wind. Dressing >> warmly >> was adviseable. >> >> The trip was with OneOcean Expeditions, which charters Russian research >> vessels; in our case the Akademik Ioffe. A Finnish built, Russian owned >> and >> manned vessel chartered to a Canadian company operating out of Squamish, >> BC. They do various trips into the Arctic and Antarctic with mainly two >> identical ships. After our trip, I have only praise for the whole >> operation. The Russian crew was professional in all the best possible >> ways, >> the OneOcean staff were extremely knowledgeable and helpful (staff were >> mostly Canadian with some other nationalities represented) and the ship >> was >> perfectly suitable for this trip. Strengthened for ice, extremely quiet >> and >> vibration free diesel engines and electric thrusters for 'sneaking up on >> polar bears', if a 6000ton ship can sneak up on anything. >> >> The sister ship to this one was the base of operations two years ago when >> the first of Sir John Franklin's ships, the Erebus was found after 165 >> years in Queen Maud Sound in 11m of water. A week after we came home the >> second ship, the Terror, was found a bit further North by essentially the >> same group, but not using the same ship since it was still carrying >> tourists. >> >> So. Here are the first pictures. All pictures in this album are from the >> trip; more to come. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/Arctic/?g2_page=1 >> >> Henning Wulff >> hjwulff at gmail.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information